OK. Let's get the boring part out of the way. On June 24, 2011 I left a depressing unrewarding high stress job in Washington State (No it wasn't in Nowhere, WA just close by).
Actually it was not all that bad of a job as things go in the United States. Certainly didn't pay very well but it was technically interesting and actually helped to make this world a bit better place. BUT the job was killing me quite literally. I was 63 ½ years old and was not at all sure that I would live to be 64 (Spoiler: I did).
So I retired. Sheri and I spent October–December of 2011 in Costa Rica as “Snow Birds” and did the same January-March of 2013. A fantastic country, Costa Rica. Not your stereotypical Latin American Nation – but we had always wanted to live in Mexico so we did an exploratory three week trip to Ajijic in Dec2013/Jan2014, really loved Ajijic and snow-birded in six month increments for three years (2014, 2015, 2016). Generally October through March.
And in December of 2016 we decided we wanted to live here full-time. So we canceled our short term rental, acquired our Residente Temporal, and started leasing year around.
There must be something about December. In December of 2019 we bought a house in the western side Ajijic, in the La Huerta subdivision. Basically we decided to stop dating Mexico and marry her. We have spent a lot of effort to upgrade it to what we want, to be the Mexican house Sheri and I had talked about owning since our trip to Cabo San Lucas in 1994.
That's pretty much it for now. In a few days I'll post about the attitude change that occurs with home ownership,
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